Silicon Valley Mourns Andy Grove, a Titan of Tech

[Voiceover] Silicon Valley has lost a giant.

Andy Grove, a former Intel CEO, author and mentor

who helped pioneer the modern computing industry

passed away at the age of seventy-nine.

Grove was the epitome of self-made success.

He survived the Holocaust and the Hungarian Revolution.

He came to the U.S. with nothing,

yet he put himself through university

receiving a PhD in chemical engineering.

In the sixties, Grove climbed the ladder

at the Seminole Silicon Valley company

Fairchild Semiconductor.

When the founders of Intel poached Grove,

he didn't stop climbing.

Moving up from Director of Engineering

to president, to CEO.

Under his guidance Intel was transformed

from a struggling memory chip maker

into the processor titan it is today.

Outside the valley, Grove might not have

the name recognition of some of his protégés,

but among tech's most influential leaders

he's routinely mentioned as part

of the same pantheon that includes

Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and Steve Jobs.

For all his success,

Grove never stopped learning and giving.

He left Intel in 1998 following a prostate cancer diagnosis.

After his recovery he dedicated himself

to philanthropic causes.

Grove overcame enormous odds to run a company

that still makes the technology

that powers our laptops, desktops, and computer servers.

The machines that power today's economy.